Chair-seat.



PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

G. KELLY.

CHAIR SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 11, 1994.

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GEORGE KELLY, OF MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN.

CHAIR-SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed February 11,1904. Serial No. 193.073.

T0 on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE KELLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mineral Point, in the county of Iowa and State of l/Visconsin, have invented a new and useful Chair- Seat, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in chair-seats; and the object thereof is to provide a novel combination of parts which will more thoroughly effect the securing of the covering to the backing, prevent the egress of the stuffing or padding, and at the same time secure suflicient surface to permit the seat being fastened to a chair without encroaching upon the cushioned portion of said seat.

In the accompanying drawings there is illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the chairseat. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view through the same. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional View, on an enlarged scale, along one of the lines of stitching.

Similar reference-numerals indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawlngs.

In the embodiment illustrated a backing or base plate 5 is employed, which consists of a single thickness of pulp-board. The upper face of this backing-plate is overlaid with a flexible covering 6, constructed of leather, imitation leather, or any desirable material. Padding or stufling is interposed between the covering 6 and the backing-plate 5.

The marginal portion of the cover 6 overlies the edges of the plate 5 and extends beneath the same, forming inturned lipped portions 8. Fastening means in the form of continuous lines of stitching 9 pass through the marginal portions of the covering, through the margins of the plate 5, and the underturned lipped portion 8. As will be seen by reference to Fig. 3, these lines of stitching are preferably doubled or reversed. In other words, two threads or cords are employed, which extend in opposite directions, whereby the upper and under portions of the covering 6 have continuous lines of said threads or cords extending thereover. The padding or stuffing 7 terminates at the lines of stitching, and as said lines are some distance from the ed es of the plate 5 marginal flanges are provided outside the stitching, through which devices for fastening the seat to a chair are passed.

A chair-seat as thus constructed has the backing-plate and covering securely fastened together, and because of the continuous stitching extending through the covering and clamping the same securely to the plate the padding or stuffing cannot find egress between the joints formed thereby. On the other hand, the marginal flange affords suflicient space for the passage of fastening devices without encroaching upon the cushioned portion of the seat. Also, as the base or backing plate consists of a single thickness of pulpboard, the flexible covering may be stitched to the same by a machine.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A chair-seat comprising a base-plate made of a single thickness of pulp-board, a flexible covering greater in area than the base-plate so as to extend over the upper face of the same and fit about the edges thereof, padding interposed between the plate and covering but terminating short of the edges of the plate, lines of stitching extending entirely through the plate and the covering and arranged in spaced relation to the edges of the plate whereby the covering may be stitched to the plate by a machine, the said padding terminating at and confined in place by the lines of stitching, leaving unstufled marginal portions of the seat outside the stitches, said unstuffed marginal portions bein adapted to receive independent fastening devices for,

securing the seat to a chair.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE KELLY. Witnesses J. D. MARTIN, ALLEN TUoKER. 

